[clue-tech] /etc/hosts changing on Debian

[Angelo Bertolli]

Bruce Ediger wrote:
> On Sat, 10 May 2008, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>
>> Can someone give me a clue as to what might be editing the /etc/hosts 
>> file on Debian?  I suspect the gnome network-admin program, but I'm 
>> not sure.  For some reason, the system keeps adding what it thinks my 
>> local host name should be to the table.  Sometimes it adds the host 
>> name with a bogus IP address
>
> Sounds like the DHCP client to me.  Doesn't Debian use "pump" or some odd
> thing?  I'm a Slackware kind of guy, and Slackware uses "dhcpcd".
> SuSE or NetBSD used "dhclient", I think.

I'm using dhclient as well...

>> from an old connection that wasn't activated.  Sometimes it adds my 
>> hostname.RouterSuppliedDomain with the correct IP address.  This 
>> messes up some programs like sudo.
>
> This reinforces my guess about the DHCP client, whatever it might be.

Maybe.  I did find a couple of things that seem to point to network-admin:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=4204

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=623868

But I won't rule out dhclient completely.


Angelo